pope benedict xvi gave his final public blessing this morning to thousands of people in st. peter's square in rome. benedict will step down on thursday. >>> italians began voting today to elect a new prime minister. with polls closing tomorrow they view it as a two-way race between bersoni and silvio berlusconi. right now i'm joined by neera tanden and michael hastings, also a buzz feed correspondent. ana marie cox, former washington editor for time.com and gq magazine and oscar joiner. great to have you all here. there was a big stink made about the white house press corps story or nonstory. president obama played golf with tiger woods in florida last weekend. the white house press corps was denied access to this moment in the president's second term. fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry, who's the president of the white house correspondents association released a statement to politico that underscored the press corps's complaint. i can say a broad cross section of our members from print, radio, online and tv have expressed extreme frustration to me about havin